A Thousand Lies

My experience from reading Marriage of A Thousand Lies has been met with feelings of intrigue, sorrow, and emotion. Following the story of Lucky, who is a unemployed Millennial programmer. She tries to live the life her family wants her to have, and always follow her traditions. Though Lucky and her husband are married, they are both homosexual, and want to follow their own paths. This is put to the test when Lucky's childhood friend Nisha comes over, who also was Lucky's first lover. While Nisha is planned to marry a man her parents arranged for her, she still feels affection for Lucky, and will do anything to be with her.
The story seems a bit hard to follow at times, though it does follow the themes of sexuality, marriage, and conformity quite admirably. (It's certainly no 50 Shades of Grey). Throughout the story, we learn more about Lucky and how she feels about love throughout the novel. Even her sisters who asked her to visit their grandmother who is slowly passing on. She takes care of everyone, and keeps her love to Nisha a secret in fear she would be shunned from her community.
Overall the story was hard to follow, but was a great tale true or not of what it means to keep ones sexuality, and personal feelings. I felt it as well when our class watched the movie Circumstance (2011), which was very similar to the book in story as well. In the movie, two sisters named Shireem, and Atafeh are arranged marriages. Shireem is fine with it, while Atafeh is not, in fact she is fully bi -sexual, with her family not knowing the truth. She tries to keep it personal, and only shows affection for her sister, and other women around her.
It follows closely to the book by having the characters be both lesbian, conflicting with their families over marriage, and have difficult tasks the characters must overcome. To me that's why the stories are engaging to learn about, for you truly feel sad about Lucky, and Atafeh as characters, and what they go through. There are faults with both the book, and movie but overall, I would say they taught me more about the struggles of LGBTQ rights, and conformity in many ways. Hopefully there will be more that can be done for all families to accept their children no matter who they are, or what they believe.

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